..Our data provide evidence that overweight is associated with a high proportion of uric acid stones in patients less than 60 years of age, whereas beyond this limit, advancing age is the main risk factor...

..Atazanavir has been associated with kidney stones and renal failure. We measured urine and plasma concentrations of recent protease inhibitors (PIs) and searched for PI crystals in the urine of asymptomatic patients...

2,8-dihydroxyadenine urolithiasis: a not so rare inborn error of purine metabolism

..Low-dose acquisition did not lower the performances (P < 0.05). This entirely automated approach eliminates manual intervention on the images by the radiologist while providing identical performances including for low-dose protocols...

..In conclusion, both accurate morphologic and FTIR analysis of stones and serial crystalluria determination should be more largely used, in view of their value in the diagnosis and management of renal stone formers...

..To verify whether this difference in the epidemiological profile is still observed today, we analysed renal stones collected in various regions of the globe and compared their composition to that of stones observed in France...

..The objective of this article is to review the metabolic syndrome in order to help urologists to recognize this syndrome so that they can identify patients requiring more specific management and medical follow-up...

..In practice, only one in every two stones is recovered for morpho-constitutional analysis. The objective of this study was to determine the place of double J stent encrustation analysis for indirect determination of stone composition...

Imaging-based assessment of the mineral composition of urinary stones: an in vitro study of the combination of hounsfield unit measurement in noncontrast helical computerized tomography and the twinkling artifact in color Doppler ultrasound

..002). The absence of a TA is a predictive factor for the presence of COM stones (p = 0.008). Hence, the association of NCHCT and Doppler enables the accurate classification of the five types of stones in vitro...

..Our aim was to determine, using CT attenuation values, the chemical composition of 241 human renal stones placed in a jelly phantom and to analyze the influence of respiratory motion on the classification...

..Analysis of every first stone both in children and in adults should never be neglected, in order to early detect unusual forms of nephrolithiasis requiring laboratory evaluation and deep etiologic treatment...